Filamentous cereal biscuit.



E. L. WALLACE.

IILAMENTOUS CEREAL BISCUIT.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 11, 1908.

993 922., Patented May 30, 1911.

TED TATE PATENT @FFIGE.

EDWIN L. WALLACE, 0F NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE SHREDDED WHEAT COMPANY, OF NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK.

FILAMENTOUS CEREAL BISCUIT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN L. lVALLAoE, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Niagara Falls, in the county of Niagara and State of New York, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Filamentous Cereal Biscuit; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a side view of a biscuit showing the invention. Fig. 2 is an end View.

The invention relates to biscuit of filaments or threads of grain; and particularly of wheat, and the invention consists in the novel combination of parts as herein after set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, the figures are designed to show a biscuit having filaments of cereal material, the letter a, indicating the filaments of the upper layers and the letter Z), those of the lower layers.

In the ordinary process of manufacturing such articles, known as shredded wheat biscuit, the porous and sinuous filaments or threads of cured grain are piled upon each other in layers, and in substantially parallel relation to each other, until a thickness sufficient for the formation of a biscuit is provided, when the band of layers is shaped into biscuits by a pinching separation which causes the filaments to adhere to each other at the edges of each biscuit, after which such biscuits are baked. In this baking it is found that the upper layers of the filaments become more or less rounded upward or arched in openwork disposition, while the lower layers of such filaments remain' flat and more or less condensed on account Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 3 1), 1911.

Application filed September 11, 1908. Serial No. 452,595.

of the weight of the layers above them. Iri order to obviate this condensation to a large extent, it is provided by this invention that the lower layers of the biscuit shall consist of filaments of larger size in cross section than those which form the upper layers. While the filaments of the upper layers may be about one thirtieth of an inch in thickness, the filaments of the lower layers should be of comparatively greater cross section, or about one twentieth of an inch in thickness. of larger size they are stronger and serve not only better to sustain the weight of the layers of filaments which are piled thereon, but also are designed to hold their shape and disposition under such pressure, so that the lower portion of the biscuit is made more open and loose in texture. Also in the baking this sustained open texture is designed to allow the heat to penetrate the openings and interstices of the lower layers in such wise as to cook the filaments of these layers evenly withthose of the upper portions of the biscuit.

Having described the invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A filamentous cereal biscuit consisting of layers of filaments of larger diameter in the lower layers and smaller diameter in the upper or superincumbent layers, such filaments being arranged in substantially parallel relation to each other, and bound to- As the filaments laid down first are gether in form by adherence of such filaments at the edges of the biscuit.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature, in presence of two witnesses. v I

EDWIN L. WALLACE. Witnesses:

J AS. TRAVENE, R. H. Tunvnn. 

